Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Sepp Blatter ang'oka, FBI wamchunguza

Sepp
Blatter is now at the centre of the FBI's corruption probe after the
FIFA president sensationally announced he will be resigning after 17
years in world football's top job.

Federal
agents, who last week charged 14 FIFA officials with corruption, have
told the American media that they are hoping those men will help them
build a case against their former boss.

The
revelation comes just hours after Blatter used a hastily arranged news
conference at FIFA HQ to say that he will step down after his successor
is elected in December this year, or March 2016.

The New York Times is
reporting that the FBI are 'hoping to win the cooperation of some of
the FIFA officials now under indictment and work their way up the
organization'.

It
is the same tactic used to bring down corrupt Wall Street tycoons such
as Bernard Madoff, now serving 155 years in jail after running a Ponzi
scheme which duped investors out of $2billion.

Sources told ABC News: 'Now that people are going to want to save themselves, there’s probably a race to see who will flip on [Blatter] first.

'We may not be able to collapse the whole organization but maybe you don’t need to.'

At
the press conference in Zurich tonight, Blatter said: 'I have been
reflecting deeply about my presidency and about the forty years in which
my life has been inextricably bound to FIFA and the great sport of
football.

'I cherish FIFA more than anything and I want to do only what is best for FIFA and for football.

'I felt
compelled to stand for re-election, as I believed that this was the best
thing for the organisation. That election is over but FIFA's challenges
are not. FIFA needs a profound overhaul.

'While
I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA, I do not feel that I have
a mandate from the entire world of football – the fans, the players,
the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we
all do at FIFA.

'Therefore,
I have decided to lay down my mandate at an extraordinary elective
Congress. I will continue to exercise my functions as FIFA President
until that election.

'The
next ordinary FIFA Congress will take place on 13 May 2016 in Mexico
City. This would create unnecessary delay and I will urge the Executive
Committee to organise an Extraordinary Congress for the election of my
successor at the earliest opportunity.